The presentation of resolutions of three international conferences took place in Yaounde yesterday.  

Experts in spectrum management in the country are working towards endorsing a policy and strategy formulation which is expected to give better visibility and profitability to the sector in the country in terms of better telephone services and frequency management. These policies and strategies are contained in the resolutions of three international telecommunication conferences notably the 12^th World Radio communication Conference, the World Telecommunication standardisation Assembly and the World Conference on International Telecommunication-all of which held in 2012.

Speaking during a workshop in Yaounde yesterday, February 7 to endorse the resolutions, the Deputy General Manager of the Telecommunications Regulatory Board (TRB), Aboubakar Zourmba, who sat in for the General Manager, said spectrum is an important technical resource as far as wireless is concerned because wireless is based on propagation in the air. “The decisions of the international conference touch on broadcasting, mobile and fixed telephones, satellite communication as well as aeronautical and maritime communication,” he said. The allocation of the spectrum management in the country, he added, is done by an inter-ministerial committee meanwhile the detailed task to satisfy different demands are handled by TRB. “We are developing maritime communication with the different ports that are cropping up in the country. So with these resolutions, we can then layout the maritime radio communication for these ports to function efficiently,” Mr Aboubakar Zourmba said. 

He, like other speakers during the ceremony, lauded government’s initiative to bring in the third mobile telephone operator to not only improve the quality of service but call cost as well. They said with the resolutions and with Viettel that promises to provide 3G technologies, cover over 81 per cent of the national territory as well as create over 6,000 direct and indirect jobs with its investment package of about FCFA 200 billion, coupled with what other operators are doing, telecommunications is up for modernisation in the country.